The article attracts some good comments on people of supporting different side of the fence, with some real world examples: There are for and against open salaries – which one makes more sense to you? Since then, the drought has ended. Now we are able to hire equal employees at more reasonable salaries. So we are in a position where we have several employees who are, in effect, overpaid, due to market conditions. We also have many more equally talented employees who are paid several thousand dollars less. It is practically impossible to ask employees to accept lower salaries, and we wouldn’t presume to. Those contracts were hammered out at the going rate, and we’ll honor them. In an open salary system, the only “acceptable” solution would be to raise everyone’s salary to the same over-priced level. Why secret salaries are a baaaaaad idea – [The Chief Happiness Officer]
